I saw AstroRocket tweet this and it basically summed up what is going on right now. Morey is probably rebuilding, but of course he wouldn't say that. Jason Williams (@AstroRocket) Honestly, I think Morey has finally figured out a way to go the tank/rebuild route while fooling Les into thinking he's trying not to. Bravo
Haha its probably not tanking, but hopefully its just playing our young guys and going from there. Les get's his money from the Lin-cash cow as well.
I don't know where this confidence we're going to land Lin is coming from. The Knicks will match any offer, even if it puts them in cap hell.
Tanking and signing Omer Asik to a 25 million dollar contract doesn't really coincide with one another. Sounds like another move to help tread that water
If we offer a 3yr/25 mil offer to Lin and the knicks match, due to the Gilbert Arenas Clause, Lin will get about 15mil in his final year! That would mean the knicks would owe 77mil without taxes to just Melo, Stat, Chandler, and Lin! Because the Knicks will be repeat lux tax offenders by 2014, they would have to pay about 60mil in taxes alone! That's over 130mil for just 4 freaking players!
wow. the refusal of some of you to admit that morey may actually be capable of sucking is just insufferable.
Disagree. Asik sucks offensively. If this team has only youngsters as the focal points of the offense, they're going to bumble around and lose games 90-80. Asik actually could help our guys develop, since they can be more confident on D without worrying about guys beating them.
So Morey's plan was to suck for three years just to suck even more? And we're trying to acquire Asik to tank without having traded Martin, Scola, or Lowry yet? Yeah, sounds like a plan.
Yes. Its good for them too. To have Asik as the backstop to their mistakes. While also developing that youth? Best possible thing i can see happening now. Unless Morey swings for the fences one more time or they all overachieve somehow.
The OP is obviously aware that businessman Les is dumb enough to be oblivious to the operation of his 500 million dollar business.
